Tops & Flops

Let’s chat about the best & the worst of the first three months! #tops #flops #bookreviews #booktube Books mentioned (in alphabetical order): Honoreé Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. du Bois (2021): #historicalfiction #blackhistorymonth #reread Rebecca Romney, Jane Austen’s Bookshelf (2025): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242466664-jane-austen-s-bookshelf #nonfiction Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky (2024): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63216148-there-are-rivers-in-the-sky #historicalfiction Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility (2022): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58446227-sea-of-tranquility #scifi #reread Dorothy West, The Wedding (1995): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51902130-the-wedding #BlackHistoryMonth People & channels mentioned: Heidi @myreadinglife8816 Name of my YouTube channel: I stole name ‘The Second Shelf’ from the title of Meg Wolitzer’s article in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/books/review/on-the-rules-of-literary-fiction-for-men-and-women.html?_r=1 Find me elsewhere: website: www.brittaboehler.com (hasn’t been updated in a while, sorry…) goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5497508.Britta_B_hler Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brittaboehler/ X, formerly twitter: https://twitter.com/Britta_Boehler I also wrote some books: Fiction: - De juiste houding (2021): https://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/De%20juiste%20houding-T717.php available in Dutch - The Decision (2015): http://hauspublishing.com/fiction/the-decision or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2014): http://www.aufbau-verlag.de/index.php/autoren/britta-bohler-a01 also available in Dutch, French, Italian, Greek, Danish, Hebrew and Turkish Non-fiction (available only in Dutch): - De goede advocaat (2017): http://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/boek/De-goede-advocaat-T559.php - Crisis in de rechtstaat (2004): https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-arbeiderspers/boek/crisis-in-de-rechtstaat/ - De zwerftocht van een leider (2000): https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-arbeiderspers/boek/de-zwerftocht-van-een-leider/ Crime novels under the pen name Britta Bolt (together with writer Rodney Bolt) The Posthumus Mysteries: - Lonely Graves (2014) - Lives Lost (2015) - Deadly Secrets (June 2016) https://www.hodder.co.uk/authors/detail.page?id=OyxVSj8qaz8LdzSTmFvOZFbcgK5hHe5EsnGIqAwZPIsQ/c8OEdhES6cW and for German readers: - Das Büro der einsamen Toten (2015) - Das Haus der verlorenen Seelen (2016) - Der Tote im fremden Mantel (February 2017) http://www.hoffmann-und-campe.de/autoren-info/britta-bolt/